Online Information Review: Volume 47 Issue 1

Why are there so many extreme opinions online?: An empirical, comparative analysis of Japan, Korea and the USA

Shinichi Yamaguchi

This study aims to verify the following hypothesis: People with extreme opinions post on social media more than those with moderate opinions.

Peeping in the minds of MOOCs instructors: using fuzzy approach to understand the motivational factors

Pooja Goel, Sahil Raj, Aashish Garg, Simarjeet Singh, Sanjay Gupta

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are among the most recent e-learning initiatives to gain widespread acceptance among universities. However, despite MOOCs' “much-documented”…

Twitter use by the dementia community during COVID-19: a user classification and social network analysis

Fatimah Alhayan, Diane Pennington, Sarra Ayouni

The study aimed to examine how different communities concerned with dementia engage and interact on Twitter.

The application of emotions, sharing motivations, and psychological distance in examining the intention to share COVID-19-related fake news

Wee-Kheng Tan, Chun Yu Hsu

Coronavirus disease 2019-related fake news consistently appears on social media. This study uses appraisal theory to analyze the impact of such rumors on individuals' emotions…

Cross-social networks analysis: building me-edge centered BUNet dataset based on implicit bridge users

Amina Amara, Mohamed Ali Hadj Taieb, Mohamed Ben Aouicha

The intensive blooming of social media, specifically social networks, pushed users to be integrated into more than one social network and therefore many new “cross-network”…

A social media engagement framework for applicant attraction and retention: #SocialMediaCongruence

Andrew Franklin Johnson, Katherine J. Roberto, Christopher J. Hartwell, Jennifer F. Taylor

The social media (SM) engagement framework consists of dimensions of employee privacy expectations and organizations' social media orientation. Further, the social media privacy…

Studying domain structure: a comparative analysis of bibliographic coupling analysis and co-citation analysis considering all authors

Yanhui Song, Lixin Lei, Lijuan Wu, Shiji Chen

This paper focuses on the differences in domain intellectual structure discovery between author bibliographic coupling analysis (ABCA) and author co-citation analysis (ACA…

Social media exposure assessment: influence on attitudes toward generic vaccination during the COVID-19 pandemic

Dan-Andrei Sitar-Taut, Daniel Mican

Even though social media (SM) has been explored in-depth, its role remains unclear regarding short- and long-term preventive attitudes in global health emergencies. To fill this…

Remote OPAC users’ search query reformulation (SQR) patterns: a transaction log analysis

Faraja Ndumbaro

Users' search logs are implicit feedbacks on how searchers interact with online information retrieval (IR) systems. The purpose of this paper is to analyze search query…

Understanding viewers' information-sharing in live-streaming based on a motivation perspective

Shih-Wei Chou, Ming-Chia Hsieh, Hui-Chun Pan

This study aims to understand how information-sharing in live-streaming is formed through a motivational perspective. The authors provide a framework to explain how live-streaming…

Exploring the social activity of open research data on ResearchGate: implications for the data literacy of researchers

Juliana Elisa Raffaghelli, Stefania Manca

Although current research has investigated how open research data (ORD) are published, researchers' behaviour of ORD sharing on academic social networks (ASNs) remains…